Rebecca Afonwy-Jones – Mezzo Soprano

Mezzo Soprano

Rebecca Afonwy Jones

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This season Rebecca looks forward to returning to JAM on The Marsh Festival in Cabaret Broadway & Beyond, featuring the music of Kurt Weill and to Presteigne Festival for the Welsh premiere of Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade’s Scenes from Under Milk Wood following its premiere at Spitalfields Festival. She will make debuts with The Hebrides Ensemble for Berio Folksongs and the premiere of Jasper Dommett’s Folds on Folds at Lammermuir Festival and with Irish National Opera in their new production of The Bartered Bride as Hata, directed by Louisa Muller and conducted by Richard Pierson. Rebecca will join Ensemble Cymru for a touring chamber programme including works by Rebecca Clarke, Frank Bridge and Brahms’ Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano.

Most recently, Rebecca made her debut with The Royal Ballet and Opera as Susie A Quiet Place, directed by Oliver Mears and conducted by Nicholas Chalmers. With the Royal Choral Society, she sang Dvorak’s Stabat Mater at Canterbury & Southwark Cathedrals and Handel’s Messiah, for Good Friday at The Royal Albert Hall. With BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales conducted by Gareth Malone she recorded Messiah for transmission on BBC One & Two at Easter 2025. Other highlights include Messiah at The Royal Festival Hall with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Waltraute Die Walkure in a live podcast recording at the Royal Albert Hall for The Rest is History with Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland.

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